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Travis is nervous about his upcoming speech because the other students will be grading his speech instead of the professor. This is an example of what type of communication apprehension?
a. peer evaluation
b. formality
c. dissimilarity
d. subordinate status
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Jennifer was recently passed up for a promotion in favor of her coworker Ryan. However, Jennifer finds out from another employee that Ryan has been plagiarizing his presentations at work. Jennifer knows this isnt fair, but she doesnt want Ryan to be fired either. What is Jennifer experiencing?
a. conflict of interests
b. ethical dilemma
c. teamwork dilemma
d. coworker dilemma
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At Robins new company, Robin is asked to sign an agreement that pledges that he will follow safety guidelines, promote teamwork within his team, and do his job with integrity. What values does this document support?
a. team values
b. group values
c. organizational values
d. institutional values
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Lisa is about to give a presentation to the other students in her class when she becomes nervous because nobody appears to be focusing on her. What type of communication apprehension is Lisa feeling?
a. lack of attention
b. novelty
c. formality
d. conspicuousness
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The location, time, and occasion where communication occurs is referred to as ______.
a. context
b. setting
c. environment
d. background
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What is the role of the telephone during a conference call?
a. medium
b. channel
c. source
d. context
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Ethics is the discussion, determination, and deliberation processes that attempt to decide which of the following?
a. what is right or wrong
b. what others are capable of doing or not doing
c. what is considered appropriate for others, but not ourselves
d. who is to blame when things go wrong.
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Since Bens supervisor is out sick, Ben has been called on to give an impromptu briefing to the other employees at his company. This situation is likely to cause ______ communication apprehension.
a. trait
b. novelty
c. subordinate
d. formal
Q:
Kim teaches English classes and thinks she is very clear with assignment instructions. However, every student in her class is confused about the instructions throughout the semester. Kims behavior is known as ______.
a. misinformation
b. communication inefficiency
c. communication bravado
d. miscommunication
Q:
Senders ______ messages, while receivers of messages are left to ______ them.
a. encode; decode
b. decode; encode
c. encrypt; decrypt
d. decrypt; encrypt
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How does conspicuousness cause communication apprehension?
a. through the creation of anxiety about being in the spotlight
b. by creating anxiety about others evaluations
c. by introducing anxiety about a formal environment
d. by focusing on anxiety about doing something new
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______ and feedback are critical to the success of business and professional communication.
a. Perspective taking
b. Emotional control
c. Role-taking
d. Expressiveness
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A cell phone ringing in the middle of class is an example of ______.
a. external noise
b. a distraction
c. a noise channel
d. nonverbal communication
Q:
Holding a meeting late on Friday afternoon just before closing an office may create ______ that will interfere with your message.
a. a feedback loop
b. truancy
c. internal noise
d. fatigue
Q:
KEYS, a communication process designed to enhance your ability to critically assess and then improve your communication skills, stands for ______.
a. know yourself, evaluate the professional context, your communication interaction, step back and reflect
b. kinesics, extemporaneous, your nonverbal and verbal strengths and weaknesses
c. know your communication, evaluate the reaction, your communication competencies, success strategies
d. keys to communication skills, exemplify and enhance, your own and the communication of others, signs and symbols
Q:
Shyness describes what type of communication apprehension?
a. trait
b. group
c. introverted
d. evaluative
Q:
How does hashtag activism distinguish itself from real activism?
Q:
What is machinima?
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What is the difference and tension between corporate convergence and grassroots convergence?
Q:
According to authors, prior research demonstrates that people of color are not commonly perceived as a possible threat to society and that Latino immigrants are not an exception.
Q:
In the registers of emotion and affect, Asian American youth also work through and against the specter of the model minority as a prescriptive racial fiction. Throughout its popular cultural history, Asian America has propagated the grander passions of anger, rage, and shame.
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Toffler describes the age of prosumption as the arrival of a new form of political and capitalistic autocracy, class-determined work, power-dependent labor, centralized production, and government-focused production.
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The article talks about two forces--the top-down push of corporate convergence and the bottom-up pull of grassroots convergence. These forces intersect to produce what might be called global convergence, the unidirectional flow of consumer goods around the country.
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The death of Michael Brown quickly captured the imagination of thousands across and beyond the United States. Protesters from around the nation flocked to Ferguson to participate in demonstrations calling for ______. A. the officer to be released and the charges be dropped B. Michael Brown to be officially recognized as a civil rights figure C. the arrest of the officer responsible for the fatal shooting D. the entire police department to be held responsible for the death of Michael Brown
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As explained in the article, Wilsons characterization of himself as a child and of Brown as ______ became part of an exculpatory narrative in which the unarmed teenager was framed as the true threat, not the police officer who shot and killed him.
A. a deranged youth
B. a dangerous criminal
C. an easily angered man
D. a superhuman monster
Q:
In considerations of the use of ______ to articulate shared interests and mobilize political action, the recent history of its role in antiauthoritarian movements throughout the Middle East and Africa looms large.
A. physical snail mail
B. social media
C. digital e-mail
D. live community forums
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As the author details, a successful tactic utilized by the cyberspace movement is ______.
A. the application of cyberattacks to alter private information
B. the alteration of digital avatars to enhance peoples online experience
C. the invitation to engage in political action by contacting politicians
D. the presentation of cultural norms to social groups
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According to the article, a new stage not previously identified was conceptualized and called a ______, where donations, political action, and civil action are promoted and enforced via cyberspace.
A. demand for change
B. call for action
C. shift toward movement
D. none of these
Q:
In his online essay How New Media Gave Me a Voice, Jung narrates familiar tales for Asian Americans--the perpetual mispronunciation of ones name, the attempt to cultivate a love for genres of Whiteness, and the lack of role models or words to articulate ones self--in order to capture the paradoxical feelings of Asian America ______.
A. cultural representation in media and the feeling of inauthenticity
B. governmental criminalization and wanting to feel wanted
C. social rejection and the feeling of not belonging
D. cultural alienation and the desire to belong
Q:
As the author states, Jungs anecdote so vividly reminds us, we need another set of protocols: a(n) ______ analysis of the value of Asian American YouTube performances.
A. audience-centered
B. creator-centered
C. global-centered
D. scholar-centered
Q:
From a Foucauldian perspective, people with disabilities live immersed in a ______.
A. constant state of being judged by others
B. pathological discourse of disability, as an object of disciplinary power
C. state of always being separate from the rest of the normal world
D. marginalized and seen as something less
Q:
The authors mention a consistent theme throughout this inquiry, which is the notion of being doubly marginalized: In their story, living as ______.
A. veterans and people of color
B. undocumented immigrants and as women
C. women and as individuals with disabilities
D. gay and as people of color
Q:
By documenting the organizing efforts of GimpGirl Community moderators and their learning experiences over the past decade, we were able to inquire into the connections between ______.
A. online technologies and the capabilities people need to develop and maintain communities
B. digital and real-world communities and the need to develop and maintain contact
C. entertainment and communities and the capabilities corporations need to develop and maintain customers
D. online messages and physical mail and ways that countries need to regulate in order to maintain safety for citizens
Q:
As discussed in the article, while users are unable to build their own structures or objects to insert in the world--machinima allows users to extend its representational or narrative space, creating scenarios that are ______.
A. falsely new because they depict activities or behaviors that are not unique to the space of that game
B. genuinely new because consumers can depict actions that they cannot do in real life without causing lasting repercussions
C. genuinely new because they depict activities or behaviors impossible in the space of the game
D. not new at all, as players have likely experienced similar activities in other games
Q:
What criteria does the author mean when she says that no multiplayer social game could meet that criterion at all times?
A. Games must be mostly or partially free for all players at all times but can charge if players want to spend money on specialty content.
B. Games must be entirely free of racist discourse in order to be culturally important or socially productive, in short, to be good.
C. Games must be completely free of visually disturbing imagery and content.
D. Games must limit the amount of violence and must always keep their content appropriate for all audiences.
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As the article details, massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMOs) such as World of Warcraft (WoW), Lineage II, and Everquest are immensely profitable, skillfully designed, immersive, and beautifully detailed virtual worlds that enable both exciting gameplay and ______.
A. the creation of real-time digitally embodied communities
B. cool characters that you can relate to in the real world
C. the creation of complex social experiments that can influence how people think about games
D. complex economies that can teach players about real-world finances
Q:
Gamergaters references to war create ______.
A. an exciting metaphor that will both engage peoples interest and cause them to think about the situation differently
B. a feeling of intensity to keep the audiences attention
C. an underlying message about the state of our society
D. a narrative framing to set themselves as the good guys on a quest for truths
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In many ways, #Gamergate is simply Internet business as usual; much of the vitriol chronicled here is routinely found in other virtual places. Yet, and importantly, #Gamergate made this kind of ordinary harassment newsworthy, calling our collective attention to ______.
A. the idea that online spaces are much safer than traditional spaces, with people rarely if ever being abused
B. the abuse people endure in sport games
C. the sustained abuse many people endure in order to participate in online spaces
D. the positivity of online spaces as spaces away from the harassment found in many real day-to-day places
Q:
Historically, game companies have imagined an audience filled with ______.
A. young, White, and heterosexual males
B. young and multiethnic males
C. White males of all ages
D. young, White men and women
Q:
Authenticity is a social construct that is ultimately ______.
A. always relative and context dependent
B. always false
C. either true or false depending on the context and intended audience
D. only true to the receiver and not relevant to the sender
Q:
According to the author, gossip websites, fan sites, and blogs provide a plethora of new locations for ______.
A. people to vent frustrations and ideologies
B. the circulation and creation of celebrity
C. creating new online threats
D. the reinvention of community forums and discourse
Q:
As the article specifies, networked media is ______.
A. changing sports culture, the ways that people relate to sports images, and how athletes are produced
B. altering the scientific culture, the ways that people relate to scientific news, how research is produced, and how science is practiced
C. changing celebrity culture, the ways that people relate to celebrity images, how celebrities are produced, and how celebrity is practiced
D. causing people to become reliant on network news for their information and ideas
Q:
______ is the means for Facebooks economic ends. Facebook permanently monitors users for economic ends, which means that no economic privacy is guaranteed to them.
A. Premium social media
B. Sponsored content
C. Data surveillance
D. Web-based advertising
Q:
Alvin Toffler introduced the notion of the ______ in the early 1980s.
A. consumer
B. prosumer
C. producer
D. professional shopper
Q:
As the author describes, the media imperialism argument blurs the distinction between at least four forms of power. Which of the following is not one of the four discussed?
A. economic
B. cultural
C. coercive
D. psychological
Q:
Grassroots convergence serves the needs of both ______.
A. urban and suburban
B. national and global
C. statewide and countrywide
D. cosmopolitan and local
Q:
What is populism?
Q:
What factors go into developing programing and what is a consequence of those choices?
Q:
What are some of the media that television uses to justify social class framing?
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The shift signaled by Netflix concerns issues of technology but maybe more importantly, branding and programming strategies, viewing practices independent from scheduling that lead to a complication in how audience behavior needs to be understood and success of a program measured, and how familiar associations with the concept of television are not merely subverted but changed completely.
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Without a media-saturated fast capitalism and media-centric politics, new technologies like Twitter and social networking, and a celebrity culture that has morphed into politics, there could never be a Donald Trump.
Q:
Orange is the New Blacks portrayal of womens attempts at beautification under the most dire circumstances takes a much darker approach, but it challenges stereotypes about female prisoners priorities.
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Rhimess approach, balking at any utterance of race talk with regard to dialogue, plot points, or character development, works to make the discussion of racialization seem unnecessary and inauthentic.
Q:
While virtues such as discipline and diligence are considered undesirable in the U.S. context, these purportedly negative traits can become positive when pushed to excess.
Q:
The global success of reality television is attributable to the practice of licensing the format of a show to overseas broadcasters for adaptation to specific markets.
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According to the author, the networks had the money and the audience to dominate the market as the only buyers of series programming from Hollywood producers and studios.
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If one accepts that television narratives articulate normative truths that enter into public discourse and reinforce or resist dominant ideologies, then Gilmore Girls is a poor indicator of and contributor to neoliberal notions of an autonomous individual made in the image of a classless middle-class American.
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While Netflix is accountable to shareholders and its partners in revenue sharing, it tends to be the company that advertises itself to ______ rather than ______. A. younger audiences; older viewers B. subscribers; advertisers C. millennials; baby boomers D. online viewers; network audiences
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Netflix has moved into territory that sets it apart from familiar structures of production, broadcasting, or branding of television. Netflix does signal a change within ______.
A. the digital creator field
B. the online streaming market
C. the digital television landscape
D. the live entertainment framework
Q:
______ are presented as media spectacles and dominate certain news cycles.
A. Dramatic news and events
B. Pop culture updates
C. Entertainment news
D. Sports and political rallies
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Donald Trump is mastering new media as well as dominating television and old media through his orchestration of media events as ______ and his daily Twitter feed.
A. PR disasters
B. false advertising
C. spectacles
D. historical significance
Q:
At first glance, representations of female prisoners on contemporary U.S. television may indeed appear as more ______ than those of their male counterparts.
A. violent
B. sympathetic
C. helpless
D. pathetic
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Orange Is the New Blacks ambition to present a different perspective on prison life appeared to be validated by ______.
A. real-life prisoners
B. television audiences
C. the production cast and crew
D. a chorus of television critics
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At best, Gilmore Girls points to a lack of political commitment on the part of its producers, and at worst, it perpetuates a neoliberal fantasy that glosses over the harsh realities of working-class life in ways that distract from the value of class consciousness. This seemingly class-based show exploits economic disparities in the articulation of ______.
A. socioeconomic fantasies
B. a classless neoliberal middle class
C. false representations of working-class families
D. a conservative idea of middle class
Q:
Neoliberalism, characterized broadly as the ______ for global capitalism, expounds the alleged death of class; according to this mode of social organization, professional success and material security are the responsibility of private individuals.
A. secret key
B. ideological software
C. doomsday device
D. philosophical hardware
Q:
When television programs make race an explicit theme, it is usually an appeal to some universal, effectively White, human experience that operates to ultimately reinforce the goals of ______.
A. authoritarianism
B. liberal individualism
C. social objectivism
D. Hollywood executives
Q:
Rhimess blind-casting works to acknowledge difference in ways that will cause the least amount of discomfort to White audiences while providing an illusion that under liberal individualism, the marketplace will do right by historically ______.
A. marginalized individuals
B. inaccurate figures
C. complex characters
D. significant people
Q:
Hungs narrative on Top Chef revealed not only how the trope of being technical but lacking heart and soul is placed on ______ but also the conflicts that racialized minorities encounter competing in fields of culture that continue to be governed by White privilege.
A. African Americans
B. Hispanic Americans
C. Asian Americans
D. European Americans
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As the author describes, rather than represent a wide range of real people who reflect the diversity of the nation, reality TV repackages ______ into comfortingly familiar stock characters and stereotypes.
A. difference
B. culture
C. people
D. social class
Q:
Television producers, advertisers, and networks know that programs that are too long, too difficult to comprehend, or simply too boring will lead to ______.
A. producers dropping out
B. viewers switching channels
C. writers stopping creating
D. actors performing poorly
Q:
Under post-Fordism, capitalism responds to the global flow of labor and consumption markets within and between nation-states by transforming local and regional ______ into market segments and mobilizing citizens as consumers.
A. practices
B. cultures
C. products
D. economics
Q:
Another factor affecting network decisions on content is the need to produce programming suited to ______ not only in decisions on new series but also in day-to-day decisions producing each episode.
A. audiences interest
B. advertising
C. production cost
D. distribution
Q:
Reaching the vast majority of the population for well over half a century and seeping into everyday conversation, ______ has/have made a significant contribution to our cultures attitude toward the man who makes his living with his hands.
A. sports
B. reality TV
C. sitcoms
D. documentaries
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Part VII: Still Watching Television in the Digital Age
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How is gender identity contextualized? In what ways, positive and negative?
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What is cultural norming and what does the stereotype effect do to norming as a paradigm?
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Explain one of the ways in which media impacted you as a child.
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The ability of minority populations to succeed in an environment from which they were previously excluded appears to be related to percentages. Once a certain numeric threshold has been crossed, members of the minority population are less likely to feel the effects of stereotype threat.
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The author argues that the best thing about video game culture is the way it burrows down into the marrow of human consciousness to influence the moral.
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In this account, the self-manufacture of erotic images constitutes, in effect, a form of unpaid sex work that conflates female bodily display with prostitution even in the context of an intimate relationship.